What is relevant to me about Gardasil is that:
1. It was voluntary.
2. HPV according to some research is not always spread sexually.
There are other vaccines that are not “always” effective. I remember the anthrax immunization I received in the military, about which there was such an uproar. It had a low rate of effectiveness.
Also the CDC states that: Cervical cancer used to be the leading cause of cancer death for women in the United States. However, in the past 40 years, the number of cases of cervical cancer and the number of deaths from cervical cancer have decreased significantly. This decline largely is the result of many women getting regular Pap tests, which can find cervical precancer before it turns into cancer.
Cervical Cancer Statistics - 2007
On a 2007 thread I posted this:
11,820 women were diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2003,
3,919 women died from the disease that same year.
Dividing 11820 cases by 144 million women comes out to 0.0008208 or 0.08208%.
This is not an epidemic. But it is a moneymaker using scare tactics.
Perry was pushing mandatory HPV vaccination for girls to attend school.